Naesiotus
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Naesiotus is a genus
of tropical air-breathing land snail
s, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of tropical air-breathing land snail
Land snail
A land snail is any of the many species of snail that live on land, as opposed to those that live in salt water and fresh water. Land snails are terrestrial gastropod mollusks that have shells, It is not always an easy matter to say which species are terrestrial, because some are more or less...
s, a pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Orthalicidae
Orthalicidae
Orthalicidae are a family of tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks are classified in the informal group Sigmurethra of the clade Stylommatophora...
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Species
Species within the genus Naesiotus include:- Naesiotus quitensis (Pfeiffer, 1848) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=859908&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock
- Naesiotus stenogyroidesNaesiotus stenogyroidesNaesiotus stenogyroides is a species of tropical air-breathing land snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Orthalicidae.- Distribution :Naesiotus stenogyroides is endemic to Dominica. It is restricted to higher localities...
(Guppy, 1868) - endemic to Dominica
Distribution
Distribution of the genus Naesiotus include Colombia, Dominica (1 species), Peru, ...External links
- Breure A. S. H. (1975). "Caribbean land molluscs: Bulimulidae, II. Plekocheilus and Naesiotus". Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 46: 71-93, pls. 6-8, tables 8-14.